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Auction: 1016 - Important Stamps & Covers
Lot: 32

Great Britain King George V Downey Head Engraver´s Sketch Dies for the Unissued Values 3d. Die 2 with shaded background to head and upper corners solid, stamp-size die proofs used as colour trials (7), in pale turquoise-green, grey, bistre-brown, red-brown, rose-red, pale grey-brown and violet, all on proof paper with the last two gummed and showing part "postage" watermark. A fine and very rare group Estimate £ 20,000-25,000

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